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WATCH ABOVE: A team of medical experts are to thank for a happy mothers’ day for Myla Lopez. Crystal Goomansingh reports.

TORONTO – According to Myla Lopez, it’s because of a miracle and the help of Toronto doctors that she and her twin daughters are alive.

Exactly a year ago at 36 weeks pregnant, the 41-year-old mom went to bed complaining about a headache. In the middle of the night, Myla’s husband Joel knew something wasn’t right: Myla was making noises in her sleep and she was breathing irregularly.

Emergency room doctors looking after Myla initially told her husband Joel that they’d lost her to blood clotting in her brain. But when they saw some movement in her body, they tested her reflexes and decided there was a chance to save her.

At 6 a.m., da Costa got the call to go to Sunnybrook along with a 14-member team of various specialists including obstetricians, neurologists and anesthetists. Meanwhile, Myla was rushed to Sunnybrook, so she could be placed under their care.

“All I said was ‘there’s a pregnant lady with twins and she needs to come in’ and everybody just dropped what they’re doing and make it happen. It’s good to know you’re working in a place like this,” da Costa said.

Myla had a large clot on the right side of the brain. Da Costa’s task was to take out that clot by making a large opening in the skull, and leaving the bone-flap out to relieve pressure in the brain. But he had to factor in the babies and how the obstetrics team would play into his plans.

“We had the blood clot out, and the bone out in less than an hour… less than an hour later, they were already starting the C-section and we were already closing the skin in the skull,” da Costa explained.

The twins, Samantha and Jamie, were rushed off to the neonatal intensive care unit. But Myla wasn’t out of the woods yet. The doctors couldn’t promise that Myla would wake up.

But she did three days later: “They had to tell me that I had the babies and a C-section. I didn’t know. I didn’t even have pain in my abdomen because, I guess, of all the medications I was on,” Myla told Global News.